When the Sunset announcement came through saying the UGC was being taken offline in August, and that fate of official forums was unclear (but likely to follow) I started doing an archival backup of the message board, to preserve user Guides, FAQs, Bug reports, and other relevant information. Provided here is the archive current to 2016-05-17. I will try to update the archive when possible, to catch new posts between now and shutdown, but I can't guarantee that. The archive already covers over 60k individual HTML files massing in at about 5 GB of text. As a community we wrote a lot of text in one and a half years.

This Archive was create for academic and archival purposes, to preserve a wealth of knowledge and community effort that may otherwise be lost.

It's something I'm thinking about. I'm kinda waiting for the official forums to actually be taken offline. I just wanted to get a copy of it off my computer now... in that "just in case" moment of something like hard drive failure.

Unfortunately the Wayback archiving is really spotty. The latest archive of the forums that is somewhat reliable looks like 8/9/16, but still plenty of holes. But, definitely better than nothing, and way more thorough than whats here on the forums outside of Brasten's archive.